Will Your Company Survive A Disaster?
May 10, 2008 - The Globe And Mail
Hurricane Katrina. The big blackout. Sept. 11. Whether for natural calamities or man-made ones, more businesses are giving disaster and continuity plans a... More
Top 9 Worst Excuses For Not Performing Daily Offsite Computer Backup
March 7, 2008 - Fortress Data Vaulting, Inc.
Tell me, what confirmation do you have that your critical and proprietary information is being safely stored offsite every day? “Well,” you say, “maybe not every... More
Data Backup And Recovery Options
March 7, 2008 - Fortress Data Vaulting, Inc.
One of the most fundamental elements of any disaster recovery plan is data backup and recovery. If an IT staff lacks the ability to recover lost data following an... More
Data Backup - How To Identify and Measure Digital Delusion Disorder
March 7, 2008 - Fortress Data Vaulting, Inc.
Over time, 100% of computers fail 100% of the time. Picture the following scene: It’s Friday at 3:30pm, and you’re just about to shut down your office for a... More
Backing Up Your Files Before Its Too Late
March 7, 2008 - Fortress Data Vaulting, Inc.
In my line of work, I’ve heard the horror stories of loosing important data more times than I care to count. I’ve been cussed out in person and over the phone... More
Backing Up Your Data - The Key To Safe Computing
March 7, 2008 - Fortress Data Vaulting, Inc.
Here’s a data loss-prevention exercise that any organization can run immediately at little or no cost except, perhaps, to some egos. Simply ask for some critical... More
Protect Yourself From Data Armageddon
February 21, 2008 - LAW.com
As I walked through the halls of LegalTech New York recently, I was struck by the fact that with so much focus on data discovery, management and review, there... More
Corporate IT Warms Up To Online Backup Services
February 4, 2008 - Computerworld
Large businesses are looking more closely at online backup options as a way to ease systems administration headaches and avoid security concerns linked... More
Most Companies Walk A High-Wire E-Mail Risk Without A Net
January 24, 2008 - eWeek.com
A new study confirms what a great many people in IT already suspected: Companies of all sizes are vulnerable to costly and damaging e-mail outages because... More
Disgruntled Worker Accused of Deleting 2.5 Million of Files
January 24, 2008 - Yahoo News
The target may be high-tech, but the emotion involved is as old as humanity. Spite, anger, and revenge. Police say that’s what filled a woman’s heart after she... More
14000 E-mail Accounts Accidentally Lost
January 24, 2008 - Yahoo News
Charter Communications admits it accidentally erased thousands of its customers’ e-mail accounts by mistake. A Charter spokesperson said an accident... More
Identity Theft Protection Specialist Loses Unencrypted Tape
January 22, 2008 - Byte and Switch
An unencrypted backup tape missing from an Iron Mountain storage facility has forced a major credit card company that specializes in online credit... More
Data Breach Exposed 650,000 Card Holders
January 18, 2008 - Data Storage Today
It took GE Money two months to reconstruct the missing tape and identify the people whose information was lost. Since December, the company has been... More
Sarbanes-Oxley - Implications for Document and Message Storage
January 16, 2008 - InfoTech Research Group
Sarbanes-Oxley has had a dramatic and continuing effect upon organizations, particularly in the area of data storage. Use this guide to help strengthen... More
Fueled by Tremendous Growth in Data Generation, Online Backup Service is Poised to Grow Fourfold by 2011
January 7, 2008 - Business Wire
Fueled by a combination of factors, including the tremendous growth in digital data generated by individuals and small businesses, the worldwide online... More
Data Breaches Of Personal Info Soar
December 31, 2007 - Rocky Mountain News
The loss or theft of personal data such as credit-card and Social Security numbers soared to unprecedented levels in 2007, and the trend isn’t expected to... More
IDC Serves Up Top 10 Storage Predictions For 2008
December 24, 2007 - Computerworld
Analysts see solid-state drives, online storage gaining steam. IT managers looking to boost storage efficiency next year will embrace online storage services... More
Power Still Out For Thousands of Quebecers
December 18, 2007 - CBC.ca
Nearly 40,000 customers are still without power on the south shore, because of the strong winds that hit the area. Strong winds on the south shore have... More
Downtown Fire
December 12, 2007 - Barrie Examiner
Blaze guts historic downtown building; no reports of injuries. An alleged explosion rocked Barrie’s downtown shortly before midnight last night. A building... More
Explosion Sparks Massive Fire In Southern Ontario City Of Barrie
December 7, 2007 - CBC.ca
A huge fire triggered by an explosion at a restaurant gutted at least three buildings on Friday in the downtown core of the southern Ontario city of Barrie, police... More
3500 Still Without Power
December 6, 2007 - CBC.ca
Maritime Electric crews are still trying to restore service to thousands of customers on P.E.I. who’ve been without power since Tuesday. Heavy wet snow and... More
The Corporate Governance Landscape In Canada
November 22, 2007 - Deloitte & Touche
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act started a revolution in corporate governance. Here’s an overview of corporate governance in Canada. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act... More
For Those Who Believe That Backup Does Archiving – NOT!
October 27, 2007 - Computer Technology Review
Faced with limited budgets and the desire to simplify operations, some IT executives believe that if they have a reliable backup procedure, it will also fulfill their... More
Will Your Company's Electronic Records Storage Withstand Legal Scrutiny
September 13, 2007 - Graziadio Business Report
Questions such as those above are important now that global government regulations are increasingly making firms responsible for the accuracy... More
What Is Considered Best Practices In Terms Of Backup Vaulting (Offsite Storage) Frequency
August 27, 2007 - SearchStorage.com
There seems to be a belief that if you’re a smaller shop or smaller business, you don’t have a lot of data, and you don’t need to send your data offsite very... More
Canadians Admit Paltry Business Continuity Spending
August 15, 2007 - ITWorldCanada
Canadian firms believe the four per cent of their IT budget currently put towards business continuity planning is insufficient, according to a recent survey... More
Why You Should Perform Data Classification
July 13, 2007 - SearchStorage.com
What you will learn: Regardless of how daunting a task it may be, understanding the data we store is the first step in addressing data management issues... More
Tape Backup Is WORN (Write Once Read Never)
July 9, 2007 - Computerworld
Largely due to its cost and transportability, tape remains the most common choice of media for long-term data retention. However, this may be mainly an artifact... More
Real-world Disk Failure Rates Offer Surprises
June 21, 2007 - Computerworld
Disks don’t have a sweet spot of low failure rate. At this year’s Usenix File and Storage Technologies Conference in San Jose, we were treated to two... More
Archiving Old E-mail A Compliance and Legal Issue
April 12, 2007 - The Globe And Mail
Spoliation: it’s an ugly piece of legal jargon. But if you haven’t put in place an e-mail archiving policy, you may learn its meaning, and it won’t be pleasant... More
Disk Drive Failures 15 Times What Vendors Say, Study Says
March 2, 2007 - Computerworld
Customers are replacing disk drives at rates far higher than those suggested by the estimated mean time to failure (MTTF) supplied by drive vendors, according... More
10 Reasons to Outsource Remote Data Protection
February 28, 2007 - AccountingWeb.com
In today’s information-driven organizations, the costs to generate, keep available, manage and recover data are staggering. Many businesses today depend on... More
Disk Failures In The Real World - What Does An MTTF Of 1,000,000 Hours Mean Yo You?
February 14, 2007 - Carnegie Mellon University
Component failure in large-scale IT installations is becoming an ever larger problem as the number of components in a single cluster approaches a million. In... More
Failure Trends In A Large Disk Drive Population
February 1, 2007 - Google Inc.
It is estimated that over 90% of all new information produced in the world is being stored on magnetic media, most of it on hard disk drives. Despite their... More
RBS Releases Top 10 Excuses for Not Using Remote Backup
December 12, 2006 - Remote Backup Systems
In a recent survey of over 8000 software licensees and commercial online backup service providers, Remote Backup Systems, Inc., asked what excuses... More
New Rules Impact Storage Procedures
December 1, 2006 - Storage Magazine
Americans like to sue each other. According to Fulbright & Jaworski’s “The Third Annual Litigation Trends Survey Findings,” 90% of U.S. corporations are... More
Data Backup No Big Deal To Many, Until...
June 7, 2006 - CNNMoney.com
When Darragh Marmorstein’s computer crashed, the freelance wardrobe stylist had to shell out $1,500 - more than the cost of many new computers - to recover... More
Canada Introduces Its Version of Sarbanes-Oxley
March 20, 2006 - InvestmentNews
Amid controversy over the tactics used by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Canada’s celebrated insider-trading case, one strategic success... More
Disaster Planning and Recovery - Details For Personal and Professional Services
March 16, 2006 - Remote Backup Systems
For many years, disaster recovery and business continuity planning were concerns addressed only by larger corporations and well funded enterprises. Data... More
Data Backup and Compliance Legislation - Three Reasons To Get It Right
September 20, 2005 - Remote Backup Systems
The amount of data used by today’s businesses has increased exponentially from just five years ago. Corporate scandal, international unrest, and glaring... More
Online Backup Service Providers - Clarifying The Value Proposition
December 7, 2004 - Remote Backup Systems
Online Backup of computer data is finally gaining mainstream acceptance among business and consumer clients alike. After many years of wait-and-see... More
The Business Value of Data
July 1, 2004 - Disaster Recovery Journal
What is the value of your organization’s data? The ability of business and IT managers to answer that question directly correlates to the success of... More
Time is Money When Recovering Lost Data
September 1, 2002 - Disaster Recovery Journal
Time is of the essence when recovering your company’s lost data. While you are impatiently waiting for your IT department to recover your data, your... More
Human Error Is The Culprit In Data Loss
September 6, 1999 - Government Computer News
Recent studies suggest that user errors and hardware failures do more damage to organizations’ data than the hacker attacks that draw the headlines... More
